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The boundary also is carefully written (here), settling the extent (P) of the land : On the east is Muntakasvastha, on the west Gôśaridhara, on the north Rajakani, and on the south Kardamalika,
(V8. 21 and 22.) Outside these boundaries, in Maitada and Dväripata, six hamlets were given, and also Achaqahedika. Also five assistants (were given), vis. Thathi, Padhara, Vathôla, Löhatadi, and Rasayana, together with their wives and children.
(V. 23.) Whatever king there may be in this royal lineage of mine, descending without limit from Bhaskara, to him Srivallabha, with words of good omen, frankly says: Guard my fame!
(V. 24.) And if, when my own race is extinct, some other king come, what indeed will I not be to him who does not curtail my fame!
(V. 25.) If any persons ever commit any wrong in regard to any part of this (grant) which has been thus fully described, and the localities of which with their boundaries have been stated, and the fact be ascertained by Brahmaņas conversant with the Vedas, then the primeval Boarb at once will mete out due panishment to them.
(V. 26.) Whoever, oven for a moment or even in thought, does the slightest kind act to this alms-house, which is both a pilgrimage to the city of heaven and a victorious maroh against adversaries, he in this world defeats his enemies and is the recipient of all good fortune, and in the life to come rejoices in the coveted world of the immortals.
(V. 27.) People who, religious by nature and with their minds solely directed to acts of religion, do anything whatever here in regard to this (alms-house), may they with their children and children's children enjoy prosperity in this world, and in the life to come obtain the manifold delights of everlasting glorious heaven!
(V. 28.) Whosoever taketh away land, whether given by himself or by others, he becometh * worm in ordure and is burnt together with his ancestors.
(V. 29.) Land has been granted by many kings, commencing with Sagara ; whosoever at any time possesses the earth, to him, for the time being, belongs the reward (of a graht).
No. 20.- DEOLI PLATES OF KRISHNA III. ;
SAKA-SAMVAT 862.
BY R. G. BHANDARKAR, M.A., PA.D., C.I.E. The copper-plates, a transcript and translation of which are given below, were found in a well in D6611, about 10 miles south-west of Wardhå near Nagpur. They were first published by me in Vol. XVIII. of the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. The
1 Vis. for the management of the alme-house, or as servants. I cannot be sure that I have given the proper names, which follow, correctly.
The original has rajya, literally in this kingdom' or reign'; but the context shows what is in the author's mind.
I.o. I promise (or am ready to be to him whatever he wishes me to be; I will be to him even as the text implies - Nany.dnika, i.e. an animal (such 88 beast of burden) which is marked with the nose-string (nasyd).' In an Orinsa copper-plate inscription (Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. LXIV. P. I. p. 161, 1. 8) the second half of similar verte is: tasy-dhan Wara-lagnah nydt yd mat-kartttis na lumpati.
• Compare above, Vol. III. p. 262, 1. 82, and similar passages in cognate inscriptions.
I.e. the god Vishņa.
• I take the writer to have formed Drander compound (which may always be need in the negter singular) of wrapurayátrd and amitrayátrd.
